Galatians 3:10–14

3:10 For all who20 rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.”21 3:11 Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith.22 3:12 But the law is not based on faith,23 but the one who does the works of the law24 will live by them.25 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming26 a curse for us (because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)27 3:14 in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles,28 so that we could receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.

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20	tn Grk “For as many as.”
21	tn Grk “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all the things written in the book of the law, to do them.” sn A quotation from Deut 27:26.
22	tn Or “The one who is righteous by faith will live” (a quotation from Hab 2:4).
23	tn Grk “is not from faith.”
24	tn Grk “who does these things”; the referent (the works of the law, see 3:5) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
25	sn A quotation from Lev 18:5. The phrase the works of the law is an editorial expansion on the Greek text (see previous note); it has been left as normal typeface to indicate it is not part of the OT text.
26	tn Grk “having become”; the participle γενόμενος (genomenos) has been taken instrumentally.
27	sn A quotation from Deut 21:23. By figurative extension the Greek word translated tree (ζύλον, zulon) can also be used to refer to a cross (L&N 6.28), the Roman instrument of execution.
28	tn Or “so that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus.”